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Ted Sullivan talks about Melissa in #Supergirl, what it was like working with her. He answers a question via twitter.

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I’m really curious on what your take is on what Ted said about the ships for s5? Please :)

Tbh whenever Ted says anything, my reaction is:

He is not going to give much away on Twitter and most of his buzzwords like "complicated" can mean literally anything. I find the level of engagement between some of the RD writers like Ted and the fans to be.... interesting? It's not what I grew up with where there was distance between the fans and writers and we would engage in letter writing campaigns and stuff. Now it's almost expected that fans need to "lobby" the writers for their ships. I find this strange! I wonder if this lobbying is tracked by TPTB. I think it probably is. I question this. But that's another topic.

Ted seems to enjoy the attention he gets on twitter. In the past, a writer for a show like Riverdale probably flew under the radar and got little attention. Now he gets immediate fan attention and engagement whenever he posts anything RD related. I'm sure he must enjoy that or he would not keep doing it.

It's also his job to create hype and attention a couple months before the show is due to come back. And I think he's pretty good at that? Social media strategies for shows like Riverdale don't happen in a vacuum. If Ted Sullivan is answring tweets on twitter, that has been cleared in advance. He probably even volunteered to be the guy to troll and rile up fans because he seems to genuinely enjoy it. Most of the time it doesn't bother me, and tbh, Ted's episodes had some of my favourite Bughead scenes in season 4, so his tweets are meaningless to me. I do get annoyed when he purposely trolls fans and then lectures them about being too invested in the ships instead of caring about RL events. Like, u started this conversation buddy?? And also, life is a bitch, and sometimes people cope by tweeting at you about bughead (which you have invited them to do)? Stop the lectures, man.

I digress. You can literally put any spin on his tweets that you want. Speculation can be fun (love the spoilers about badass FBI Betty personally and I am running with that) but try not to let it stress you out. Ted Sullivan is purposely trying to rile up the fans, and he is doing a job. He is never going to tweet: "bugvarchie get back together by episode six and nothing bad or traumatic happens to them again." Instead he's going to say "it's complicated wait and see!!!" so people tune in come January.

#ted sullivan #Riverdale discourse #fan engagement on twitter is so fascinating to me #i bet it's not universal #cw shows are probably more tapped into that #because a younger audience and lower viewing figures #it gives you an idea of who is out there #but does a few voices tweeting incessantly about ships tell you anything about the audience?#i think this is questionable

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What do you think about what Ted said?

#ask replies #anonymous #rd negativity #ted the terrible #ted Sullivan

“There’s a reason I never had kids.”

My man, that appears to be a fairly solid decision ... though perhaps not for the reasons you were thinking?

(I know social is different in the realm of entertainment, but it’s wild to work with people who do it as their career and then see this dude’s choices, whew.)

#rd negativity #ted sullivan #using my own blocked tags like an asshole #a nosy asshole #anti ted sullivan #ted can suck it

If someone asks you what's it like working with so and so actor and your response is to objectify said actor and not say anything about their ACTING or performance.... then that's all I need to know about your character.

#ted sullivan #ted tweets vomit #ya ik KJ can't act for shit #but u really need to mention his abs like they're smth that adds value to his existence?